Duplication of texlights + bad surface e Created 7 years ago2017-07-01 20:09:54 UTC by seedee

Can someone help me out? I don't like errors, especially those that deny me playing the map.

Everything's dandy except for rad.
[quote]--- BEGIN hlrad ---
Command line: C:\VHLT\hlrad.exe "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Half-Life\cstrike\maps\de_chsc" -extra -lights C:\VHLT\lights.rad -estimate -low
Arguments: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Half-Life\cstrike\maps\de_chsc" -extra -lights C:\VHLT\lights.rad -estimate -low

= Current hlrad Settings =
Name | Setting | Default
-------------------|---------------------|------------------------
threads [ 4 ] [ Varies ]
verbose [ off ] [ off ]
log [ on ] [ on ]
developer [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
chart [ off ] [ off ]
estimate [ on ] [ off ]
max texture memory [ 33554432 ] [ 33554432 ]
max lighting memory [ 33554432 ] [ 33554432 ]
priority [ Low ] [ Normal ]

fast rad [ off ] [ off ]
vismatrix algorithm [ Sparse ] [ Sparse ]
oversampling (-extra)[ on ] [ off ]
bounces [ 8 ] [ 8 ]
ambient light [ 0.000 0.000 0.000 ] [ 0.000 0.000 0.000 ]
circus mode [ off ] [ off ]

smoothing threshold [ 50.000 ] [ 50.000 ]
smoothing threshold 2[ no change ] [ no change ]
direct threshold [ 10.000 ] [ 10.000 ]
direct light scale [ 1.000 ] [ 1.000 ]
coring threshold [ 0.001 ] [ 0.001 ]
patch interpolation [ on ] [ on ]

texscale [ on ] [ on ]
patch subdividing [ on ] [ on ]
chop value [ 64.000 ] [ 64.000 ]
texchop value [ 32.000 ] [ 32.000 ]

global fade [ 1.000 ] [ 1.000 ]
global light scale [ 2.000 2.000 2.000 ] [ 2.000 2.000 2.000 ]
global gamma [ 0.550 0.550 0.550 ] [ 0.550 0.550 0.550 ]
global light scale [ 2.000 ] [ 2.000 ]
global sky diffusion [ 1.000 ] [ 1.000 ]

spread angles [ on ] [ on ]
opaque entities [ on ] [ on ]
sky lighting fix [ on ] [ on ]
incremental [ off ] [ off ]
dump [ off ] [ off ]

colour jitter [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 ] [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 ]
monochromatic jitter [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 ] [ 0.0 0.0 0.0 ]

custom shadows with bounce light

[               off ] [               off ]

rgb transfers [ off ] [ off ]
minimum final light [ 0 ] [ 0 ]
size of transfer [ 1 (16bit) ] [ 1 (16bit) ]
size of rgbtransfer [ 2 (32bit) ] [ 2 (32bit) ]
soft sky [ on ] [ on ]
translucent depth [ 2.000 ] [ 2.000 ]
block opaque [ on ] [ on ]
ignore textures [ off ] [ off ]
reflectivity gamma [ 1.760 ] [ 1.760 ]
reflectivity scale [ 0.700 ] [ 0.700 ]
blur size [ 1.000 ] [ 1.000 ]
no emitter range [ off ] [ off ]

Load Textures:
Using Wadfile: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Half-Life\cstrike\maps\de_chsc.wa_
26 textures referenced
Reading texlights from 'C:\VHLT\lights.rad'
Reading texlights from 'C:\VHLT\lights.rad'
Warning: Duplication of texlight 'KLOWN' in file 'C:\VHLT\lights.rad'!
Warning: Duplication of texlight 'SKKYLITE' in file 'C:\VHLT\lights.rad'!
Warning: Duplication of texlight '+0~LIGHT4A' in file 'C:\VHLT\lights.rad'!
Warning: Duplication of texlight 'GENERIC88A' in file 'C:\VHLT\lights.rad'!
Warning: Duplication of texlight '+0~FIFTS_LGHT3' in file 'C:\VHLT\lights.rad'!
Warning: Duplication of texlight 'DRKMTL_SCRN3' in file 'C:\VHLT\lights.rad'!
Warning: Duplication of texlight 'GLASSGREEN' in file 'C:\VHLT\lights.rad'!
Warning: Duplication of texlight '+0~FIFTIES_LGT2' in file 'C:\VHLT\lights.rad'!
Warning: Duplication of texlight '+0~LIGHT2A' in file 'C:\VHLT\lights.rad'!
0 opaque models
0 opaque faces
428 faces
Create Patches : 1391 base patches
18785 square feet [2705057.50 square inches]
84 direct lights and 16386 fast direct lights
1 light styles

BuildFacelights:
Error:
for Face 3 (texture +0~light2a) at
(-64.000 64.000 160.000) (-408.000 64.000 160.000) (-408.000 32.000 160.000) (-64.000 32.000 160.000)
Error: Bad surface extents (22 x 2)
Check the file ZHLTProblems.html for a detailed explanation of this problem

--- END hlrad ---[/quote]

I'm not worried about the duplications but I'm just curious why it decides to read lights.rad twice, causing the duplications. My command doesn't have -lights twice:

$light_exe -lights "C:\VHLT\lights.rad" -estimate -low

The main issue is the bad surface extents on the face with the florescent lights texture on it. It is scaled to 1.000 and aligned to -61, in fact all of my lights are scaled to 1.000 and there are no Alt+P errors. So this error should not be produced. Can someone help me out?

Here's the map, try compiling it for yourself if it helps

Can't download your map atm, but try using info_texlights/light_surface instead. The .rad files are obsolete now.
It also can be that your textures aren't dividable by 16.

You don't need to call lights.rad, the compile tools automatically load lights.rad and mapname.rad.

Your bad surface extents problem may or may not be related to this.

@Windawz
Cd5 said he wanted to keep the map's filesize low, but shouldn't info_texlights be removed from the BSP after compiling? Yeah, better use info_texlights and/or light_surface.

Yeah. Me and admer had a theory that if an entity is closer to 0,0,0 the map size will be smaller, including texlights entities.

I just tried texlights, but the bad surface extents error is still produced. I tried changing the texture, deleting the texlights entirely, recreating the brushes but the error still persists

Bad surface extents usually means you have faces that are too large and/or have a very low texture scale. Try increasing texture scale, dividing large faces or removing them.

Large faces reminds me (thanks), I had subdivide on 512. I was making a test map a couple of days ago with that setting just to see if there is any big difference the higher you go. LOL

Problem solved